I used to watch this and did actually get to meet the actor who played the Gendarme years ago after they had been filming in the area to where I met him.
Sadly, it is so long ago since we saw it here, I can't recall many of the character names. I would like to see it return, but like everything else that is/was good, they take them off too soon. _________________ Stand by your beds.
Listen very carefully, I shall say this only wunce:
I'm not usually a fan of this sort of thing. I think programmes should be left alone where they ended in the audiences imaginations. Things like 'It Sticks Out Half A Mile' are the ultimate sacrilege - particularly listening to its pilot episode with Arthur Lowe's speech so slurred that he sounded drunk.
I think the point of Dad's Army was how the characters reacted to the wartime situation - revealing their lives after the duration was the equivelant to revealing what Elizabeth looked like. Fortunately they never did this. (Does anyone else watch 'Frasier' and note the similarity in which the character of Niles' wife, Merris, is treated?)
HOWEVER....
I thought the Allo Allo night was superb. Partly beacuse I never got as 'emotionally' attached the show as I did with DA and so there was nothing to spoil, but also because the show in comparison was far more self aware / depreciating, and always poked fun at itself with its own stream of catchphrases and increasingly unrealistic stunts.
They are fortunate that so many of the cast survive to put on such a display - I was particularly pleased to see the gay Nazi again. However there was a tinge of sadness that they were no longer in the same situation again with the passing of the war.
I loved the Nazis in the programme, and their faces were so perfect, especially the Col-o-nel. Brilliant stuff.
One thing I never understood was how the French understood the Germans and vice versa, whereas the English characters had to don their French 'accents' in order to be heard. Was Rene bilingual?
I may be wrong, but I do seem to recall 'Elizabeth' making a very brief appearance in just one episode. Perhaps somebody could confirm or deny this please? _________________ Stand by your beds.
She does 'appear' technically as large bump from the top hammock in Mr Mainwaring's air raid shelter, and we do hear a faint squabbling noise from the phone, but that's it.
To show her would have broken the illusion totally. I to this day do not even have sufficient imagination to conceive her!
She does appear in print in the Dad's Army Annuals as you can see, here.
The two pictures show rather different people but I am inclined to think she had the temperament of the one in the left picture but that she looked like the one in the right hand picture as that figure would fit the "bump" in the bunk that Jo alluded to!
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